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BotleySaint

BotleySaint

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I can understand the frustration from Egypt. Especially given the precedent set earlier in the game.

If it was England we'd be indignant 

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BotleySaint

BotleySaint

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Just now, skintsaint said:

Funny how we never got a proper look at it, oh wait because it was Messi's Argentina that will be it....🤦

Unfortunately the corruption shown so far makes that a very realistic possibility.

whelk

whelk

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Just now, Disco Stu said:

I'm more worried about facing Norway than the prospect of facing Argentina in a semi-final. They're not all that.

Wouldn’t surprise me if Colombia beat them in quarter finals

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Saint Pete

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9 minutes ago, BotleySaint said:

I can understand the frustration from Egypt. Especially given the precedent set earlier in the game.

If it was England we'd be indignant 

Yeah, my suspicion is that Egypt goal wouldn't have been disallowed had it been an Argentina one. Argument would have been constructed to say "too far back in the move". 

BARCELONASAINT

BARCELONASAINT

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Fantastic game earlier, Egypt really only have themselves to blame. They had the game won and then imploded with some lousy defending and Messi doing what Messi has always done. Yup some VAR decisions were questionable but we all know VAR is shit and thats one of the reasons we enjoyed the Championship so much last season.

I said at the start of this tournament Argentina were not particularly good having watched a lot of their qualifiers. They rely so much on their talisman and he has not failed to deliver in every game he's played in this tournament. He took his goal magnificently.

Should we get to the semi final and Argentina do likewise we should be confident of beating them providing we are not without the likes of Bellingham and Rice who are sitting on yellow cards ahead of the Norway game.

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trousers

trousers

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23 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

Fantastic game earlier, Egypt really only have themselves to blame. They had the game won and then imploded with some lousy defending and Messi doing what Messi has always done. Yup some VAR decisions were questionable but we all know VAR is shit and thats one of the reasons we enjoyed the Championship so much last season.

I said at the start of this tournament Argentina were not particularly good having watched a lot of their qualifiers. They rely so much on their talisman and he has not failed to deliver in every game he's played in this tournament. He took his goal magnificently.

Should we get to the semi final and Argentina do likewise we should be confident of beating them providing we are not without the likes of Bellingham and Rice who are sitting on yellow cards ahead of the Denmark game.

No way! 

Saint Pete

Saint Pete

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Missed the first half, but on basis of 2nd half so far, can't see either of these beating Argentina (or Egypt if they had got through). So if we can deal with Erling on Saturday, reckon it'll be the Argies in the semi, but wouldn't be too worried about that having watched their game earlier. Reckon Norway may be the bigger challenge as Haaland is so difficult to deal with. 

skintsaint

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17 minutes ago, Saint Pete said:

Missed the first half, but on basis of 2nd half so far, can't see either of these beating Argentina (or Egypt if they had got through).

Colombia beat and draw with Argentina in the qualifiers, so reckon that would be the tougher game for Argentina out of these two.

Polaroid Saint

Polaroid Saint

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(I don't think this has any relevance to the dullness of this game...)

...but I find my self ranking the World Cup Managers on their assumed relationship to The Fall.

Murat Yakin looks like he might have played percussion for The Fall during their early nineties toura of Southern Europe/Near Asia in the early nineties.

Néstor Lorenzo absolutely, I am sure, did the booking and ticketing for Mark E Smith + others during The Falls difficult late nineties period. Looks like a man who knows his way around the whiskey options of a 7-11 or Spar.

 

 

 

 

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Holmes_and_Watson

Holmes_and_Watson

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29 minutes ago, Polaroid Saint said:

 

(I don't think this has any relevance to the dullness of this game...)

...but I find my self ranking the World Cup Managers on their assumed relationship to The Fall.

Murat Yakin looks like he might have played percussion for The Fall during their early nineties toura of Southern Europe/Near Asia in the early nineties.

Néstor Lorenzo absolutely, I am sure, did the booking and ticketing for Mark E Smith + others during The Falls difficult late nineties period. Looks like a man who knows his way around the whiskey options of a 7-11 or Spar.

 

 

 

 

I just thought they'd all played in the Fall. Just like every other group of people. 🙂

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die Mannyschaft

die Mannyschaft

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4 minutes ago, Polaroid Saint said:

I'm going for at least 7 pens per side.

This is woeful. 

Bring back Curaçao, New Zealand all is forgiven, where are you Senegal? Etc.

 

Ref should have stopped game at 30 min in and gone straight to Pens. 

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die Mannyschaft

die Mannyschaft

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1 minute ago, Lighthouse said:

I don't know why players attempt these stupid 'run up and thump it' penalties. Just do a stuttering run up and stick it the other side of the keeper FFS!!

Every player who does those stupid pens are not natural pen takers and need to do that to get an advantage over keeper. I cant imagine any England players doing these pens  in QF or SF if in pen shoot out. 

Holmes_and_Watson

Holmes_and_Watson

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Egypt's Zico can expect to be in a bit of bother.

"It's clear that the tournament has been fixed."

Can't imagine Infantino or host Trump putting up with such a scurrilous accusation.

Presumably stemming from them moaning about a penalty, rather than focusing on defending their goal.

Both Switzerland and Columbia also spent a fair amount of time play acting.

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die Mannyschaft

die Mannyschaft

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3 minutes ago, CSA96 said:

The last 8

France v Morocco
Spain v Belgium
Norway v England
Argentina v Switzerland

France 3-1  Morocco
Spain 2-0 Belgium
Norway 1-3 England
Argentina 4-0 Switzerland

 

France 4-1 Spain 

Argentina 1-2 England 

Patrick Bateman

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8 minutes ago, CSA96 said:

The last 8

France v Morocco
Spain v Belgium
Norway v England
Argentina v Switzerland

France are good, awesome, but beatable as is anyone on their day.

Norway are tough and Haaland, but beatable.

Argentina, old, beatable. Switzerland, beatable.

Could be England's year ... but I still think France's, again. 

washsaint

washsaint

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15 minutes ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

Argentina vs England final - written in the stars. Or is that in Infantino’s fairytale storybook?

errr.....hate to break it to you but that's impossible as England will play Argentina in the semis if both get through the quarters

Sheaf Saint

Sheaf Saint

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6 hours ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Egypt's Zico can expect to be in a bit of bother.

"It's clear that the tournament has been fixed."

Can't imagine Infantino or host Trump putting up with such a scurrilous accusation.

Presumably stemming from them moaning about a penalty, rather than focusing on defending their goal.

Both Switzerland and Columbia also spent a fair amount of time play acting.

They've got a pretty fair grievance in fairness. If VAR is going to intervene and disallow that Zico goal for a very minor foul in the build up, then they have to at least review Argentina's 3rd goal as well for consistency. 

The argument against that is that if they had deemed it a foul on Salah and disallowed the goal, then the ref has to award a penalty to them and it wasn't enough of a foul to justify that. But we've seen VAR give penalties for less in this tournament - like the one they gave Mexico against us.

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Saint NL

Saint NL

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7 hours ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Egypt's Zico can expect to be in a bit of bother.

"It's clear that the tournament has been fixed."

Can't imagine Infantino or host Trump putting up with such a scurrilous accusation.

Presumably stemming from them moaning about a penalty, rather than focusing on defending their goal.

Both Switzerland and Columbia also spent a fair amount of time play acting.

 

Egypt manager could be in a spot of bother after trying to activate the racism protocol erroneously. He was doing the crossed arms signal to the ref when his team were under pressure, trying to force a pause in the game. Then completely forgets about alleged abuse, not a good look for him.

Willo of Whiteley

Willo of Whiteley

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13 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

I'm more worried about facing Norway than the prospect of facing Argentina in a semi-final. They're not all that.

My mate said the Sam’s just before Argentina scored their first.

He is now firmly ridiculed in the chat and if we lost say to Argentina in the semis, it’ll probably go down as ridiculously as the time another of my mates said Harry Kane is a one season wonder. 😂

Some things will always be brought up, and never lived down.

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